As part of Youth Leads UK, we have been taking part in 12 days of Wild between Christmas and the 5th January. We have stepped outside and noticed the wildlife in these cold weeks.  We have taken…

The final day and a time to reflect and not just on the past #12DaysWild out on Chat Moss but, owing to where I visited today, my reflections went back decade after decade of my life.

As if I needed a reminder that the penultimate day of this LWT #12DaysWild journey was upon me, the hedge posing as a long line of Christmas trees was suddenly devoid of all its decorative baubles…

There was once a youngster on his lifetime journey with the natural world (especially birdwatching) who, one rain-blessed and windswept day, was introduced to the diminutive Jack snipe.

A flooded field, a large pool formed and, finding this to its liking, along came a little egret, on Day Nine of #12DaysWild

We extend a warm welcome to all our visitors from Scandinavia and other such frozen landscapes.

I suppose I should feel obliged to mention the grey partridge, as I have volunteered to join in on the LWT #12DaysWild over Christmas.

“Ambushed” by a posse of at least 90 starlings, all resting on telephone wires along the road I take onto the moss.

Under the watchful eye of the Moon a wander into a landscape evolving for nature, on Day 5 of #12DaysWild

Grey, miserable-looking and windswept was the sky over the moss, as I set off on Day 4. Was this glum weather about to affect my mood and turn me back home?